Bin Naming Output

[matsahiro]

Hello all,

I'm currently binning some records. Say I have products that need to be binned by the amount of revenue each product brings in. Revenue is 0 to 100k, where I'll need 10 bins. Right now, the bin outputs of revenue are 0, 10k, 20k, 30k... etc. How do I have the output of binning be 1, 2, 3.... 10 (representing each number bin)? I can not use the switch function as the values of revenue and distribution will change.

Should look something like this

Revenue	Revenue Bin (Don't want)	Bin Number (Want)
3000	0	1
16,000	10,000	2
35,000	30,000	4
56,000	50,000	6
87,000	80,000	9

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @matsahiro ,

So you should want the effect of dynamic selection.

Here's my workaround.

1.Create two what-if parameters.

2.Create a measure.

Bin Number = 
VAR maxbinnum =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Bin Range'[Bin Range] )
VAR maxrev =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Revenue Range'[Revenue Range] ) * 1000
VAR interval =
    DIVIDE ( maxrev, maxbinnum )
RETURN
    ROUNDUP ( DIVIDE ( MAX ( 'Table'[Revenue] ), interval ), 0 )

You can check more details from here.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[matsahiro]

Thank you very much for your help!

[PhilipTreacy]

Hi @matsahiro 

Not entirely clear.  You mention Distribution but don't say how this affects your calculations.

Is this what you need to create a new column?

Bin = SWITCH(

    TRUE(),

    'Table'[Revenue] < 10000, 1,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 20000, 2,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 30000, 3,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 40000, 4,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 50000, 5,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 60000, 6,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 70000, 7,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 80000, 8,

    'Table'[Revenue] < 90000, 9,

    10
)

Regards

Phil

[matsahiro]

Hello Phil, thanks for the reply! The data is constantly changing, meaning the bin sizes will be different each time the data refreshes. Revenue could be 0 to 100k one day and 0 to 200k the next day. I want to make sure that I always have 20 bins in the visual that are labeled 1-20 even with the bin sizes changing. The reason I cannot use switch in that way is that the bin sizing will change.